From placode to polarization: New tunes in inner ear development

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 4119-4130

  Barald, Kate F ^a   Kelley, Matthew W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 10; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 3; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; RETINOIC ACID; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX8; WNT PROTEIN;

AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL GROWTH; CELL POLARITY; CELL SPECIFICITY; CORTI ORGAN; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HAIR CELL; HUMAN; INNER EAR; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL CREST; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL LINEAGE; DEAFNESS; EAR; EAR, INNER; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HAIR CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

ERINACEIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4644342396     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01339     Document Type: Review

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